> It's extremely frustrating if the build system doesn't tell you in advance if it expects the compile to work. I have only found this behavior in three differ

> It's extremely frustrating if the build system doesn't tell you in advance if it expects the compile to work. I have only found this behavior in three different projects that used cmake. After several minutes of beautiful compilation lines in green, it turns out that the library (that cmake was supposed to check) was not installed after all. Of course it printed a beautiful error message in red. Beautiful but non-informative, that is.